Essays medical and experimental ... To which are added, select histories of diseases, with remarks; and proposals for establishing more accurate and comprehensive bills of mortality / [Thomas Percival].

  • Thomas Percival
Date:
1773
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Credit: Essays medical and experimental ... To which are added, select histories of diseases, with remarks; and proposals for establishing more accurate and comprehensive bills of mortality / [Thomas Percival]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    But unfortunately it often occafions very fevere ficknefs and vomiting, and thus aggravates the diforder, by inducing a new and mod: diftreffing fymptom. Perhaps (for I fpeak not from experience) if it were combined with fome grateful aro¬ matic, and adminiftered in an infufion of Columbo, prepared with mint water, this troublefome effeft might be obviated. In bilious fevers, fifteen or twenty grains of this root, with an equal or dou¬ ble quantity of vitriolated tartar, given every four, five, or fix hours, produce very beneficial effects. The neutral fait abates the febrile heat, allays third:, and brings on a gentle falutary diarrhoea; whilft the Columbo-root fupports the ftrength of the patient, obviates the nau- fea and ficknefs to which he is fo much difpoied, and powerfully checks the fep- tic ferment in the prrnce vice. When the belly is diffidently foluble, an infu¬ fion of it may be directed, well acidu¬ lated
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